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Hacker scalps NASA-run websites • The Register
"Miscreants took advantage of weak security to hack into two NASA-run websites over the weekend."
Malware derails Indian business school admission tests • The Register
"A malware infection has screwed up plans for Indian business schools to run admission tests online for the first time.
Many would-be students were told tests would have to be rescheduled after unspecified malware derailed plans to offer the CAT (Common Admission Test) online. An estimated 8,000 of 45,000 candidates due to take the online exams in the first three days of the testing round were affected."
Web service automates WordPress password cracking • The Register
"Hackers have developed a distributed Wordpress admin account cracking scheme that poses a severe risk for the security of blogs whose owners select insecure passwords."
Mossad hacked Syrian laptop to steal nuke plant secrets • The Register
"Mossad reportedly used a Trojan to hack into a Syrian official's laptop while he stayed in a London hotel.
The information extracted was used to plan a bombing raid at a suspected nuclear reactor facility in Syria, "
Cybercriminals down five British police forces in a year • The Register
"In the last year five British police forces have suffered major computer failures lasting three days or more as a result of malicious internet attacks.
The spate of intrusions by cybercriminals and the resulting outages was revealed recently by a senior authoritative source, who can't be identified because the disclosure was made under the Chatham House rule."
AFP: Swiss foreign ministry hit by computer attack
"Unidentified hackers have penetrated the Swiss foreign ministry's computer system to seize data, forcing parts of it to be shut down for several days, the ministry revealed Monday."
California Investigating Problems With Voting-Machine Audit Logs | Threat Level | Wired.com
"California is conducting a months-long investigation into audit logs inside the state’s electronic voting systems after reports of serious flaws with the logs — including the ability for an election official or someone else to delete votes without leaving an electronic trail."
Critical Adobe Reader vuln under 'targeted' attack • The Register
"Attackers once again are targeting an unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Reader that allows them to take complete control of a user's computer, the software maker warned."
Online banking scams overshadow plastic fraud slide • The Register
"UK online banking fraud losses rose 55 per cent to hit £39m for the first half of 2009, according to banking industry figures published on Tuesday.
The rise in banking fraud was largely blamed on more sophisticated malware-orientated tactics by cybercrooks, according to Financial Fraud Action UK (formerly the anti-fraud unit of banking payments association APACS). Phishing scams also increased to 26,000 during the first half of 2009, a 22 per cent increase from the first six months of last year."
'Sinister' Integral Energy virus outbreak a threat to power grid
"A virus outbreak is wreaking havoc with Integral Energy's computer network, forcing it to rebuild all 1000 of its desktop computers before the "particularly sinister" bug spreads to the machines controlling the power grid."
10,000 Hotmail passwords mysteriously leaked to web • The Register
"Login credentials for more than 10,000 Microsoft Live accounts have been posted to the internet, most likely by miscreants who found them or harvested them in a phishing attack."
Account di Hotmail messi online. Dal blog Vita Digitale di Federico Cella. Corriere Della Sera
Inmate hacker locks down jail computers • The Register
A UK prison computer system was left in lockdown after jail bosses gave a convicted cybercriminal the task of reprogramming it,
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